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You can use tools like Jersey and CXF to write java clients for ReST or SOAP services. You can write your own code on top of http transport libraries like Apache HC. Feign aims to connect your code to http apis with minimal overhead and code. Via customizable decoders and error handling, you should be able to write to any text-based http api.

Code Quality Rank: L4
Programming language: Java
Tags: REST Frameworks    

Feign alternatives and related libraries

Based on the "REST Frameworks" category

  • Retrofit

    9.9 7.8 L1 Feign VS Retrofit
    Type-safe REST client.

  • Dropwizard

    9.3 9.2 L4 Feign VS Dropwizard
    Opinionated framework for setting up modern web applications with Jetty, Jackson, Jersey and Metrics.

  • Spark

    9.2 6.3 L3 Feign VS Spark
    Sinatra inspired framework.

  • Jersey

    8.9 0.0 L2 Feign VS Jersey
    JAX-RS reference implementation.

  • rest.li

    7.6 8.5 L1 Feign VS rest.li
    Framework for building robust, scalable RESTful architectures using type-safe bindings and asynchronous, non-blocking IO with an end-to-end developer workflow that promotes clean practices, uniform interface design and consistent data modeling.

  • Swagger

    7.3 4.4 Feign VS Swagger
    Swagger is a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services.

  • RESTEasy

    7.2 9.2 L3 Feign VS RESTEasy
    Fully certified and portable implementation of the JAX-RS specification.

  • Rapidoid

    6.5 3.9 L3 Feign VS Rapidoid
    A simple, secure and extremely fast framework consisting of embedded HTTP server, GUI components and dependency injection.

  • Microserver

    6.3 6.1 L5 Feign VS Microserver
    A convenient extensible Microservices plugin system for Spring & Spring Boot, with over 30 plugins and growing, that supports both micro-monolith and pure microservices styles.

  • RestExpress

    6.3 5.7 L4 Feign VS RestExpress
    Thin wrapper on the JBoss Netty HTTP stack to provide scaling and performance.

  • RAML

    6.2 3.8 L5 Feign VS RAML
    Modeling language to generate REST APIs with contract first.

  • Restlet Framework

    5.8 0.0 Feign VS Restlet Framework
    Pioneering framework with powerful routing and filtering capabilities, unified client and server API.

  • RestX

    4.7 2.7 L2 Feign VS RestX
    Framework based on annotation processing and compile-time source generation.

  • Crnk

    3.5 8.9 Feign VS Crnk
    Implementation of the JSON API specification to build resource-oriented REST endpoints with sorting, filtering, paging, linking, object graphs, type-safety, bulk updates, integrations and more.

  • StubbornJava

    3.3 7.6 Feign VS StubbornJava
    Unconventional Java code for building web servers / services without a framework. Think dropwizard but as a seed project instead of a framework. If this project had a theme it would be break the rules but be mindful of your decisions.

  • Restler

    2.3 0.0 Feign VS Restler
    Automatically generates a web service client at run time by analyzing its annotated Spring controller interface

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